If humans contain Whitman’s multitudes, novels also have the possibility to contain multitudes, and they should.
—Gabrielle Zevin, “Cloud Atlas at 20: What makes a novel tattoo-worthy
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If humans contain Whitman’s multitudes, novels also have the possibility to contain multitudes, and they should.
—Gabrielle Zevin, “Cloud Atlas at 20: What makes a novel tattoo-worthy